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From the classroom to the community, here on campus and around the world, Lehigh students, faculty and alumni are working to enact positive change.

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An Engineer with a Mission

Joining a campus Christian ministry and two dance groups helped Anjela Yates ’17 find her footing at Lehigh. Interning in Shanghai and touring Cambodia widened her outlook. As president of Lehigh’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, Yates saw membership expand from six to more than 30. After completing a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering, Yates enrolled in Lehigh’s master’s program in Technical Entrepreneurship. Her goal is simple. “I would love to develop technology,” she says, “that can help students learn better.”

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Filling Needs, Not Landfills

As founder of L.A. Shares, Bert Ball ’76 has helped keep millions of pounds of materials out of landfills while filling the needs of schools and community organizations. The effort started in 1991 in Los Angeles, when Ball arranged for the dismantled wood from “Hook” movie sets to be donated to a national nonprofit. Since then, more than $180 million worth of goods and materials has been recycled through the program. “I am in the stuff business,” said Ball. “Why bury it if you can give it a second chance?”

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A Story Worth the Telling

While studying political science at Lehigh, Juan Palacio Moreno ’16 ’17G gained an appreciation for cultures far away and in his own backyard. At the University of Tübingen in Germany one summer, he helped resettle refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. With Bethlehem Unbound, Palacio spent another summer learning the art of storytelling in South Bethlehem, at Lehigh’s doorstep. “Stories,” he says, “possess the power to establish or destroy stigmas.” Palacio’s own story continues in San Francisco, where he is helping the city’s library with its 10-year capital plan.